* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )

Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).

* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident

* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, ex-president of Brazil ( b. 1897 ) ( plane crash )

** Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director ( b. 1897 )

He founded and occupied the 15th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1918.

He founded and occupied the 4th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1913.

* Fritz Müller ( 1821 – 1897 ), German-born Brazilian naturalist

He therefore returned to São Paulo in 1897 and accepted a position in the Instituto Bacteriológico de São Paulo ( Bacteriological Institute of São Paulo ), under direction of the great Brazilian pathologist and epidemiologist Adolfo Lutz.

* Aluízio Ferreira ( 1897 – 1980 ), Brazilian politician

Francisco Paulo Mignone ( September 3, 1897 – February 19, 1986 ) is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The opening is named after the one-time Brazilian champion Octavio Trompowsky ( 1897 – 1984 ) who played it in the 1930s and 1940s.

He founded and occupied the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1899.

Antônio Conselheiro, in English " Anthony the Counselor ", real name Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel, born March 13, 1830 and died September 22, 1897, was a Brazilian religious leader, preacher, and founder of the village of Canudos, the scene of the War of Canudos ( 1896 – 1897 ), a civil rebellion against the central government which was brutally stamped out with the loss of more than 15, 000 lives.

After a number of unsuccessful attempts at military suppression, it came to a brutal end in October 1897, when a large Brazilian army force overran the village and killed nearly all the inhabitants.

However, on March 6, 1897, the insurrectionists defeated Colonel Moreira César ’ s column after only two days of fighting, resulting in another great loss of life and military material among the Brazilian forces, as well as the death of Colonel César.

* 1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( b. 1897 )

Ludwig Erhard ( 1897 – 1977 ) was in charge of economic policy as economics director for the British and American occupation zones and was Adenauer's long-time economics minister.

* 1897 – Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer ( d. 1991 )

* 1897 – Kurt Gerron, German director ( d. 1944 )

* 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer ( d. 1953 )

* 1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( d. 1987 )

** Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director ( b. 1897 )

* December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, Russian actor and director ( b. 1897 )

* September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born film director ( b. 1897 )

* January 4 – Vincent Korda, Hungarian art director ( b. 1897 )

** Dorothy Arzner, American film director ( b. 1897 )

* January 14 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director ( b. 1897 )

After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera ( Hofoper ).

Boito succeeded Giovanni Bottesini as director of the Parma Conservatory after the latter's death in 1889 and held the post until 1897.

They had two children, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy ( later Princess Antoine Bibesco ) ( 1897 – 1945 ) and the film director Anthony ( 1902 – 1968 ).

Douglas Sirk ( born Hans Detlef Sierck ; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 ) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

* Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ( 1897 – 1982 ), director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( 1947 – 1950 ).

George Szell ( 1897 – 1970 ), the longtime music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, guest conducted the orchestra in 1962 and was so dismayed by the lack of discipline that he publicly condemned Jordá and even chastised San Francisco Chronicle music critic Alfred Frankenstein for commending Jordá and the orchestra.

* Nunnally Johnson ( 1897 – 1977 ), screenwriter and director

In 1921, German director Frederich Wilhelm Murnau ( John Malkovich ) takes his Berlin-based cast and crew on-location in Czechoslovakia in order to shoot Nosferatu, an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Natacha Rambova ( January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966 ) was an American silent film costume and set designer, artistic director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actress.

From 1897 to 1921, Frey was director of the International Telegraph Union.

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter ( May 8, 1897 – June 18, 1982 ), born in St. Louis, Missouri, was the third director of the post-World War II U. S. Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ), the third Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency created by the National Security Act of 1947.